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So, on Tuesday, at around 11:30, the Javascript world went into cardiac arrest. The details are pretty interesting only if you're as deep in the code as I am, so here's a summary for the tl;dr; crowd.

What happened?
Code builds on itself. No one (well, almost no one) codes in binary anymore because we came out with code that wraps groups of binary into smaller, more readable pieces. That then got wrapped the same way, and so on. That's how the software world works. Some articles about this incident even use a Jenga tower as a reference, and that's not very far off (sadly). This isn't just from language to language either. Particularly in a language that's been around for a while (like Javascript), there are libraries of code within the language to do the same thing (wrap complex bits in smaller, more readable pieces). One of those libraries has been around for a loooooooooong time and pretty much everyone relied on it, somewhere deep down the Jenga towe…